Shire denied Pershing's statement:
"No, General, why would you think that?"
"You know, we've always been trying to trick the Germans, hoping they would redeploy their forces to Saarbrücken."
"The problem is the Germans didn't do that; instead, they secretly gathered forces in the Offenburg direction."
Shire walked to his desk, took materials from the drawer, and handed them to Pershing and Haig.
Two identical copies.
Pershing immediately realized Shire was lying.
Blatantly lying, as if afraid others wouldn't know the truth.
There was no need to prepare two identical sets of materials unless he had already planned this lie!
Haig realized this too, his face darkened as he got up from the rocking chair, numbly accepting the materials Shire handed over, but he wasn't even interested in opening them.
"This is the intelligence we scouted in the Offenburg direction." Shire spoke to himself:
